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ABAP

[ABAP] Get the last day of the previous month

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I recently had to find the last day of the previous month. I found the Method get_last_day_prev_month of class cl_bs_period_toolset_basics doing the job. The actual logic is super simple:

  rv_date      = iv_date.
  rv_date+6(2) = '01'.
  rv_date      = rv_date - 1.

That’s why I thought about whether I needed a separate method at all, or whether I could do it directly in a one-liner. My first idea was to use the LET operator in combination with CONV (Option 2). This works, but does not look very intuitive, and I noticed it can be done even simpler without using LET (Option 3). And if you already have a typed variable, you can do it even shorter with a single CONV (Option 4).

* Option 1
DATA(date_1) = cl_bs_period_toolset_basics=>get_last_day_prev_month( sy-datum ).

*Option 2
DATA(date_2) = CONV d( LET x = CONV d( sy-datum(6) && '01' ) IN x - 1 ).

*Option 3
DATA(date_3) = CONV d( CONV d( sy-datum(6) && '01' ) - 1 ).

* Option 4
DATA date_4 TYPE datum.
date_4 = CONV d( sy-datum(6) && '01' ) - 1.

cl_demo_output=>write_data( date_1 ).
cl_demo_output=>write_data( date_2 ).
cl_demo_output=>write_data( date_3 ).
cl_demo_output=>write_data( date_4 ).
cl_demo_output=>display( ).

All in all, I have to say that using the get_last_day_prev_month method is still the best solution as it is much more readable.

Fiori / SAPUI5

[SAPUI5] Create date object in UTC YYYY-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss

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https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/#/api/sap.ui.core.format.DateFormat%23methods/format

            const today = new Date()
            const oDateTimeFormat = sap.ui.core.format.DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance({
                pattern: "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss",
                UTC: true
            })
            const todayISO = oDateTimeFormat.format(today)

The UTC flag can also be set, when calling the format function.

            const today = new Date()
            const oDateTimeFormat = sap.ui.core.format.DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance({
                pattern: "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss",
                //UTC: true
            })
            const todayISO = oDateTimeFormat.format(today, true)
JavaScript / nodejs

[JavaScript] Subtract month from date in format yyyyMMdd

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//Input String yyyymmdd
var date_string = '20200101'

//Create date object
var oDate = new Date(date_string.substr(0, 4), date_string.substr(4, 2), date_string.substr(6, 2))

oDate.setMonth(oDate.getMonth() - 1)

var year = oDate.getFullYear().toString()
var month = oDate.getMonth().toString()
var day = oDate.getDay().toString()

//Add leading zero's
if (month.length === 1 ) {
	month = '0' + month
}
if (day.length === 1 ) {
	day = '0' + day
}

//Return string: 20191201
var sDate =  year + month + day